Payments infrastructure funding is increasingly going to companies that frame themselves as AI-native rather than just multi-rail. Yuno, the Colombia-founded payments orchestration platform launched in 2022, raised $45 million in a Series B led by Global PayTech Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, QuantumLight Capital, Monashees, Kaszek, Rasmal Ventures, Abu Dhabi-based Further Ventures, and GrowthX Capital.

The round funds research and development, global infrastructure expansion, a path to profitability, and product expansion into in-person payments and agentic commerce capabilities. Yuno connects merchants, banks, and wallets to more than 1,000 payment methods and 460 integrations across 190 countries through a single API, serving customers including McDonald’s, NetEase Games, GoFundMe, inDrive, and Rappi. Over the past year it recovered $5 billion in otherwise-failed transaction volume, lifted authorization rates roughly 5%, and saved customers over $500 million in processing costs, putting it on pace to process $100 billion in annual volume within twelve months. CEO Juan Pablo Ortega framed the raise plainly: “Most companies raise a Series B to buy growth. We’re raising ours to meet our customers’ growth.”

The why-it-matters is less about the raise itself than about what investors are pricing. A single-API orchestration layer promising higher authorization rates and lower processing costs is now competing for capital against pure infrastructure plays like the consolidated stablecoin platforms and AI-native banking cores raising in the same window, including the $30 million round for AI-native core banking software. Investors are betting the winners in payments infrastructure will be platforms that absorb complexity across regions and rails, not add another rail of their own.

The original insight for finance leaders: recovered failed-transaction volume and authorization-rate lift are becoming the metrics payments infrastructure vendors lead with, ahead of coverage counts or integration totals. Any procurement conversation with an orchestration vendor should now start by asking for audited authorization and recovery numbers, not just a list of supported payment methods.

Source: GlobeNewswire